The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children. – Chapter 609

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第609章 谁不是爹娘生养的
谷家老宅热火朝天忙活起来。

媳妇们蒸馒头的蒸馒头,烧火的烧火,择菜的摘菜;男人们则劈柴或者斩鸡剁排骨。

“素芬,你放那里,我来干。”

“桃花,不用你动手,你就等着吃就行了。”

看到陈素芬摘菜谷桃花揉馒头,族里的媳妇们夺掉她俩手里的菜和面。

经济基础决定上层建筑,自从佟华琼生意越做越大,她和一窝子女的地位在族里水涨船高。

以前族里有什么事,重活累活都会分派给陈素芬干。

但凡谷桃花出现的地方,姑娘媳妇们则会时不时讽刺她找不到对象。

现在没有人再敢给陈素芬派活,更没有人不敢挑谷桃花的不是,不仅如此,还巴结着她俩,唯恐得罪了俩人,以后她们想去佟华琼的织坊里干活都不行。

陈素芬一脸不好意思,谷桃花则一派心安理得,抓着陈素芬的手说道:“大嫂,让你歇着你就歇着。”

人多力量大,很快三桌子酒席整治了出来。

谷老爷子抬出两坛子酒。

就等着徐家来人了。

按理说两家定亲,又在一个村住着,都是一早过来协商,但是一直等到晌午还不见徐家来人。

谷老爷子和谷老太太等急了,谷有田脸上阴晴不定就怕徐家反悔。

“徐家怎么还不来人?这是当我谷家没人吗?就算瑞年是倒插门,应有的尊重也应该给到。”谷老爷子不满的说道。

倒插门不就相当于徐家的姑娘娶谷家的男丁,谷家没有要彩礼,徐家还有什么不满足的。

谷老爷子狠狠磕了磕烟袋,让谷丰年去路口看看徐家的动静。

徐家故意的。

自从徐勇被撸掉村长,徐枣花被郑家送去家庙,徐家在村里就彻底沉寂了。

徐勇和徐进一致认为,徐家之所以倒霉,都是谷家人害的。

先是佟华琼,接着是谷瑞年,既然他们拿捏不动佟华琼,拿捏谷瑞年岂不是妥妥的。

徐家就是要告诉全村人,谷家求着徐家要入赘。

“再不来,这门亲事就作废。”族长要暴走。

谷有田说道:“再等等。”

谷有田心说族长就是说屁话,作废谁给他再找一门可以卖儿子的机会。

一直等到村里都吃完了晌午饭,谷家人等的不耐烦了,徐家人才姗姗而来。

互相打了招呼,一一落座。

徐杏花倨傲的坐在徐勇身边,谷老爷子等人看的窝火。

哪有姑娘家在定亲时当主角的,不都低着头羞答答的单凭双方父母做主。

“.既然两家说定了,今天就换了庚帖,瑞年也好早日过门。”王媒婆开口说道。

王媒婆是徐家请来的官媒。

说倒插门的亲事她还是头一回,一时之间她能说会道的嘴倒不知道该如何组织语言。

谷老爷子也是这意思,反正先前谷有田和徐勇已经谈妥了,今日不过是走个过场。

徐家人乌压压的压进上房,谷老爷子总觉得被徐家处处压了一头,压的他难受。

贾氏一听过门俩字眼圈就红了,她还是接受不了好大儿去给人当倒插门,谷老太太狠狠剜了她一眼。

徐杏花抚了抚指尖,说道:“两家说定?什么时候说定了,这不是在谈着吗?谈妥了才能换庚帖。”

这话一出口,谷有田变了脸色。

谷老太太说道:“自古以来男女婚姻,父母之命媒妁之言,哪有姑娘家自己置喙的余地?”

谷老太太不在意谷瑞年成亲后会不会被徐家欺压,她不满的是徐杏花在自己跟前撒野。

徐杏花鼻子里哼了一声,继续抚弄指甲。

“勇哥,你们是什么意思?咱们之前不是谈好了?”谷有田忍不住看向徐勇。

他看出门道了,徐杏花之所以放肆,肯定是徐家商量好的。

难不成徐家答应他的条件不算数了。

谷有田猜的没错,徐家答应他的条件确实不算数了。

年前,谷家吊着徐家既不拒绝也不答应这门亲事,让徐家很恼火。

自从谷瑞年私藏火药暴露,徐家开始占据上风,现在这门亲事谷家比徐家还急,那之前的条件徐家就要掂量掂量了。

徐勇呵呵一笑,说道:“咱们私下喝酒谈的不算数。现在咱们就正式谈一谈,谈妥了今日换庚帖,后日办酒席。”

谷老爷子抽了一口烟袋,缓缓说道:“有田和你谈的是瑞年上门,谷家不办酒席。有田两口子养瑞年一场,你们给五十两银子两清,以后有田两口子的养老不归瑞年管。瑞年和杏花生了孩子,要其中一个儿子回到谷家生活。这三个条件,你们觉得不妥的是哪一条?”

徐杏花张嘴就说:“你们养瑞年一场那不是该的?我难不成是石头缝里蹦出来的,我也是爹妈养的,我都没有要彩礼。”

徐杏花说完,徐家人一致沉默。

徐杏花的意见就是徐家的意见。

贾氏气的心口窝生疼,若不是瑞年的腿瘸了,徐杏花给她儿子当妾都不够格。

“你只有嫁到我们谷家才有资格要彩礼。你现在是招婿,你要什么彩礼?你满燕关镇打听,除了我家瑞年,谁愿意去你们家倒插门。”

徐杏花不甘示弱,说道:“对呀,满燕关镇为何就谷瑞年愿意倒插门,因为他废啊。”

贾氏气的想撕了徐杏花。

这时候徐勇跳出来缓和气氛,说道:“杏花年纪小,说话直,你们多包涵。”

贾氏想翻白眼,小什么小,比谷瑞年还大三岁呢。

谷老太太一听徐家不想掏五十两银子,面上露出不乐意。

她还指望五十两银子给谷红莲当嫁妆,谷红莲前些日子给她说看上个秀才,要想当秀才娘子那不得有丰厚的嫁妆才行?

谷老太太这样想着,就说道:“五十两银子一分都不能少。”

徐杏花轻飘飘的看了谷老太太一眼,反正她是招婿,不用上门伺候太婆婆和婆婆,她犯不着给她们脸。

不等徐杏花开口,谷瑞年说道:“杏花说的对,谁不是爹生娘养的,既然杏花不要彩礼,我们谷家也不要银子。”

众人:“.”

佟华琼吃瓜吃的抬起眼睛朝谷瑞年望过去。

小鳖孙子的心思昭然若揭,既然逃不掉当赘婿的命,不如抢先巴结徐家。

反正他出了这个门谷家和他就没有关系了,他自然不会留下银子便宜谷家。

The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children.

The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children.

恶婆婆不洗白,只虐渣儿女
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Tong Huaqiong traveled to ancient times and found herself in the body of the cruel widow Tong Dajiao. She witnessed the execution scene where the vicious widow and her children were executed all at once and returned to the year Tong Dajiao had just become a widow. At the age of forty, she had already become a grandmother, embodying the traits of a wicked stepmother and a cruel mother-in-law. Naturally, her offspring were also unruly. The only thing that gave her a slight sense of consolation was that, as a widow, she didn’t have to serve an old man. In this time-travel story, she didn't possess any golden fingers like a system or noble background. She didn't even have the chance to turn her life around through marriage; as a widow, who could she marry? She was burdened with a heap of dependents. She could only rely on herself and the bunch of unruly children at home. Her goal was to restore the family honor and correct her children’s behavior. She aimed to treat her stepson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter kindly while thwarting her youngest son’s plan to sell his daughter to a wealthy family for schooling money. She pushed her youngest son to work hard and study, using a stick to wake up her second son from laziness to become the backbone of the family, and drove away her youngest daughter's laziness and romantic distractions. She reclaimed wasteland for farming, used modern scientific knowledge to grow crops, transformed saline-alkali land into fertile fields, and led her family toward a moderately prosperous life. She started her business by setting up a stall, selling steamed buns, cakes, and marinated dishes, raising pigs and bees, gradually expanding her family’s business territory.

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